Speaking of home loans: you're probably gonna need a hefty one if you don't have some help from your parents or make a crap ton of money. Home prices are at some of the highest they've ever been, and that doesn't even factor in the ever-increasing property taxes, ie money you continually pay just to have the privilege of owning your home. So even if you own it you don't really own it.

Then there are all the headaches of owning a home, maintaining a property, footing the bill for all repairs, insurance, higher heating and energy costs, it can all seem not worth the headache. So renting seems like an alluring option. That is, until you get a crappy landlord. And boy, there are plenty of those, as evidenced in this Twitter thread.

If you've ever had problems with your apartment: heating, hot water, you know how annoying it can be to contact a landlord to get it fixed. But this guy's building owner's "ingenuity" takes the cake.

My old student landlord invented a fictional mgmt company and maintenance contractor. It was really just him with 3 different phones. Used to put on different voices & pretend he was waiting on the other two when we raised problems. 1/2

Sent a hilarious letter to the court when we sued him for our security deposit which talked about how "the boys slept on beds with no sheets on them, and left the toilet covered in secretions" Not excretions. But SECRETIONS.

My ex signed up for a flat which was advertised at x pounds per month. They realised after moving in that it was actually x pounds per four weeks and the landlord was getting an extra month's rent off everyone per year.

If square footage was mentioned in a signed lease, then this guy could've sued for all the rent he paid.

We were told "builders were going to be doing work in the living room". I come home to find they've built a wall across our nice large living room so they can turn half of it into another bedroom to rent out

I shared a flat with a bunch of art students and our landlord did a runner and DIDN'T take our money. We saved the rent 'just in case' and after a year of him being off the radar we moved house and used the money to make a record. So the opposite of a bad experience really.

So if there's anything you can take away from this post: know your tenant's rights and always, always get signed copies of the lease with clear language. Just because you get a nightmare landlord doesn't mean you have to settle for it.